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Apparel Market Research & Business Solutions

The NPD Group is the industry authority for fashion market research and solutions for the apparel and footwear markets. Leading brands rely on us for comprehensive information and analysis about consumer spending and shopping behaviour plus customized solutions that drive better business decisions.

How do we do it? We collect information from more than 1200 retailer partners representing 165,000 stores worldwide and field 12 million consumer surveys each year -- to tell our clients what, where, and why consumers are buying. We bring those robust data assets along with our industry expertise and combine it with your data or third party data to address your business issues, from opportunity identification to program evaluation.

Tracking and Premium Services

Consumer Tracking

Understand who is buying apparel and footwear, and how, why, and where they are shopping. Based on market research information from over 100,000 consumers, the service delivers an unmatched view across all retail channels in Canada.

Shopping Activity Services

Get access to insights on shopping, browsing, and buying visits across all channels, retailers, categories and demographics. View conversion rate and average spend measures and see how they vary by retailer, season, and demographic. Gain an understanding of where else your customer is shopping and buying.

Custom Market Research

Custom market research lets you go straight to consumers for answers to your product development, advertising, packaging, and other business questions. When should you release a new product? Why are sales declining among some specific demographic? What do consumers really think of your brand?

People

Tamara Szames

Director, Fashion & Footwear

Tamara joined The NPD Group’s fashion and footwear team in Canada in 2015. Tamara has over 10 years of experience in the Canadian Fashion Industry. Over the years, Tamara has excelled as stylist, designer and merchandiser. Most recently Tamara led multiple product development teams to build successful private label and branded collections. She worked closely with the key Canadian retailers to build assortment plans and merchandising strategies. Her passion for trend forecasting is what led her to the NPD group. Understanding that in order to deliver the best possible product to the consumer you need to listen to the needs and wants of the consumer first. At NPD Tamara prides herself in navigating the data to find and deliver valuable insight. Her unique tactic and broad experience contributes to an outside the box approach to finding data driven insights that drive strong business decisions.